identity, the country's sorting itself out and the rising democratic coalition, nonwhite, young, college educated, this sort of thing, that rising democratic coalition is packed in to metropolitan areas and you will have overwhelming -- take a big state that might have 15 electoral votes, you will have 3 or 4 congressional districts with overwhelming democratic majorities, 80%, 90% but then 9 or 10 districts in the state where the republicans have about 60% let's say. take it together, enough for the democrats to win the state but when you break it down by congressional district republicans start racking up some pretty significant majorities and what you see with the model in pennsylvania and ohio and virginia, all the other states and it really -- it speaks to that -- that's the statistic i have cited i think on this show before to appreciate the evolution in 1988, michael dukakis who was clobbered won over 800 counties in the country. barack obama won fewer than 700. that's how tightly condensed the democratic vote's become. for me, the bottom line is simple. saying this for years and keep sayi